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How many hours do your employees waste during the day? Chatting with buddies, reading news, browsing the Web and entertaining themselves with 'office killer' games, employees in a normal office waste as much as 35% of their working hours, according to a Microsoft survey performed in 2005 [1]. Microsoft surveyed employees of large corporations, and discovered unclear objectives, insufficient team communication and ineffective meetings to be the top time wasters. But is it valid for small and medium-size companies?

Owners of small and medium-size companies find themselves in a different seat. Running small businesses leaves no room for unclear objectives. Small teams make miscommunications impossible, and corporate meetings are inexistent. Does it mean that small business are immune to the problem of wasted time? Not really.

Small business owners often find their employees wasting time chatting, playing office computer games, reading news or browsing the Internet pointlessly. While browsing the Web and communicating with clients over email or in instant ant messaging might be a part of employees' everyday duty, it is hard to distinguish between what's being done for work and what's for fun.

Fortunately, small business owners are not left in the cold.

Refog Employee Monitor () makes it possible to intercept and log employee activities that lead to the most time wasted. The keystroke monitoring tool intercepts keystrokes, logs all Web sites visited by employees, records chats and conversations in popular instant messengers, keeps track of applications they run and files they open, and makes periodic captures of their displays.

Refog Employee Monitor is easy to learn and to use, and does not require business owners to hire security staff. The provided intelligent filters make it simple to glance through employees' essential activities while skipping assigned tasks. The advanced chat module recognizes most instant messengers such as AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, and MSN Messenger, and produces chat logs in a legible, easily readable format. Instant alerts notify business owners if any of the pre-defined events occurs, such as if an employee types certain key phrases or launches certain applications.

With Refog Employee Monitor, it's up to the business owners whether or not to tell about the computer monitoring system to employees. The available invisible mode makes Refog Employee Monitor completely hidden from employees, while password-protection makes it impossible to circumvent, disable or uninstall. All in all, Refog Employee Monitor is an extremely cost-effective, result-oriented computer surveillance system that does not require any wiring or extra hardware.

A free evaluatopn version of Refog Employee Monitor is available at:

[1] Microsoft Corp. "Survey Finds Workers Average Only Three Productive Days per Week"

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Top Time Waster Number 5

You were running late this morning so you did not have a chance to catch-up on your personal email. So you login to yahoo or hotmail and catch-up. Oh look, your sister sent you a picture of her son playing in the mud. You had better forward that to your friends. After an hour or so, you are caught up.

Top Time Waster Number 4

You are really bored, so why not check your bank accounts. Nothing ominous here. You just want to see your balance. Did the mortgage check clear? Hey, while you are at it, why not check out your retirement accounts and other investments. Wait, what else can I do online? How about pay a few bills. Another hour down the tubes.

Top Time Waster Number 3

As you are working away, your mind begins to drift. Hmmm. I sure am hungry. I wonder what I will have for dinner tonight. Hey, wait, I just remembered that I am out of wax paper. I better make a list. Let's see, bread, milk, beer, etc.

Top Time Waster Number 2

Now that your shopping list is complete, you can focus your attention back to work. Wait, I wonder how my ebay auctions are going? A quick reveals that you have a few questions on some items you are selling. Better respond to the potential buyers quickly as a few of your auctions end tonight.

After answering the obvious questions, you know, the ones where you already provided the info in the desc, you begin to wonder what other like items have sold for. So off you go, in search of price comparisons. Along the way, you find an item that you actually want. Wow, what timing, the auction ends in just a few minutes. You better hang out and place your bid. You monitor the status of the late bidding and with two seconds to spare, you enter a bid $5.00 higher than the highest bid. YOU WON THE ITEM!!.. Being the shopper you are, you have a Paypal account so you log in and pay for your item. What a great morning it has been. And look, it's time for lunch!!!!

Time Waster Number 1

Well, back from lunch. You had better get some work done. Let's see, you better go to the company intranet to review the CEO speech so you fire up your internet browser once again. Perhaps the granddaddy of all time wasters is surfing the internet. There is no purpose to this. Unlike reason number 4, where you are checking your personal information (you can bet the CEO does the same thing), here you are just surfing the net to read whatever comes your way.

Picture this. After your favorite browser comes up MSN opens. You never changed your home page to the corporate intranet because MSN is so fascinating. Hmm, look at that headline. That looks interesting. You think to yourself, this will just take a minute. You begin reading the article. At the end are links to related articles. You keep in reading. Then there is another link, and so on. Next thing you know it's 5:00. Wow, what a perfect day. Just think of all the things you just learned that you can now discuss with your co-workers.

Other than Time Waster Number 1, work can be really a productive place to get things done!

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